Recent research grants

Researchers in the Wayne State University College of Engineering use their expertise, persistence and ingenuity to find new, and often complex, solutions. Some of these projects contribute to the economic renewal of Detroit and Southeast Michigan. Many are interdisciplinary collaborations covering a wide range of applications and engineering domains. All are derived from the college's core mission to make the world safer, greener, healthier or more simply put, better.

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Materials and smart manufacturing

Career: charting the quantum computing landscape for process control

$429,907 | National Science Foundation (NSF)
May 1, 2022 - April 30, 2026

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PI: Durand, Helen
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Energy and batteries

Career: enhancing energy efficiency in mobile augmented reality apps

$223,217 | National Science Foundation (NSF)
March 1, 2022 - February 28, 2027

Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) apps require executing several compute-intensive tasks to render virtual objects and, using Artificial Intelligence (AI), analyze the environment. This project proposes an edge-assisted and energy-efficient framework for MAR apps that dynamically balance virtual object quality and AI performance to maximize user experience and battery life, which will help speed up the MAR adoption in many sectors of modern society.
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PI: Brocanelli, Marco
Computer Science

Health engineering and informatics

Infusion device optimization by addressing root causes of the inflammatory response

$2,665,731 | National Institute of Diabetes Digestive &amp;amp;amp; Kidney Diseases (NiDDK)
April 20, 2022 - February 28, 2027

Find out more about Infusion device optimization by addressing root causes of the inflammatory response

PI: Klueh, Ulrike
Biomedical Engineering